Edit Ballgame: El Caracas Base Ball Club on 23 May 1895

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Description:	<p>"The first baseball game in Venezuela was played on May 23, 1895. We know the exact date of the game because one of the participants commissioned a photographer to capture an image of the players. A photo of El Caracas Base Ball Club appeared in the August 15, 1895, edition of a local publication, El Cojo Ilustrado. A note on the origins of baseball in the United States and an explanation of how it was played accompanied the photo."</p> <p>Milton Jamail, Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom (2008), page 16. Accessed in snippet view, February 2010.</p> <p>Peter Bjarkman estimates that Venezuelan "first experiments with baseball" go "back well before the turn of the century." Peter C. Bjarkman, Diamonds Around the Globe (Greenwood Press, 2005), page 204.</p>
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Comment:	<p>Rivera, <em>An Illustrated Guide to Caracas</em> (1897) writes that baseball was eing played there, on the grounds near the Cricket grounds and near the Petare Railroad station.</p>
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